FDD's Long War Journal

ICRC

Red Cross cuts operations across Pakistan following Khalil Dale murder

Inter-Services Intelligence Agency

Pakistan – Asghar Khan petition: ISI not under the command of army chief, says Gen Aslam Beg

Al Qaeda

‘Holy wars’: Pakistan militants vow to avenge Bin Laden death

Security and stability in Afghanistan: progress and risk

The Department of Defense’s semi-annual report on Afghanistan says it is making progress towards security and stability. But progress needs to be considered alongside risks. And risks are high and increasing.

Al Qaeda

Pakistan dragging its feet on Mumbai mastermind: Clinton

Al Qaeda

Pakistani foreign minister: ‘US should provide information on Zawahiri’s presence in Pakistan’

NATO

Pakistan – US refused proposal of joint drone attacks: Mukhtar

Afghanistan

Pakistan to attend Afghan summit in US amid tensions

USS Cole bomber killed in US drone strike in Yemen

The Yemeni Embassy said Fahd al Quso was killed in an airstrike in Shabwa province. A US intelligence official told The Long War Journal that Quso was the target of a strike.

Afghanistan

Despite Pakistani condemnation, US to continue drone strikes: Panetta

Analysis: Spinning Iran and al Qaeda, part 1

A new report by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point, which has been widely cited, concludes that relations between Iran and al Qaeda are “antagonistic.” Documents showing collusion between the two were not released by the CTC, however. And the CTC ignored much other evidence that got in the way of its conclusion.

US drones kill 10 in North Waziristan

The strike took place in the Shawal Valley in North Waziristan. Al Qaeda and the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan have sheltered in the area in the past.

Afghanistan

US doesn’t expect Pakistan to reopen Afghan war supply routes soon

United States

Maryland resident Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 18, a Pakistani citizen, pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, in the “Jihad Jane” case. An Algerian co-conspirator, Ali Charaf Damache, 46, is being held in Ireland on an unrelated criminal charge.

Osama requested safe house in Peshawar for his son Hamza

In the past, al Qaeda has not shied away from putting its top leaders in Pakistan’s major cities.

Afghan intelligence thwarts 3rd major terror plot in Kabul

Afghan officials interdicted a truck carrying 1,000 kilograms of explosives in eastern Kabul, preventing a major catastrophe and marking the third major terror plot broken up since April 13.

Bin Laden advised relocation of some leaders to Afghanistan due to drone strikes in Waziristan

In late 2010, the al Qaeda emir said some of the group’s leaders and operatives should relocate from North and South Waziristan to the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar, Nuristan, Ghazni, and Zabul.

Analysis: Nearly all of bin Laden’s documents should be released

Only a tiny fraction of Osama bin Laden’s files have been released. Nearly all of them should be.

ISAF captures IMU leader in Kunduz

Special operations forces have targeted two different IMU leaders in the Imam Sahib district over the past three days.

Al Qaeda

Bin Laden Raid Fallout – Aid Groups in Pakistan Are Suspect

Al Qaeda

Pakistan – Death threats for bin Laden demolition man

Taliban launch suicide assault in Kabul following Obama’s departure

Five Taliban fighters and five civilians were killed in the assault on a civilian compound in the Afghan capital. The attack took place just hours after President Obama reiterated that the US seeks a negotiated settlement with the Taliban to end the war.

United States

Adis Medunjanin, a resident of Queens, N.Y., was convicted of all charges relating to the foiled 2009 New York subway bomb plot. He and two co-conspirators had been instructed by al Qaeda while in Pakistan to return to New York to carry out an attack.

Afghan intel confirms death of senior Afghan Taliban leader, possibly 25 others

The NDS chief confirmed that the Taliban executed Maluvi Mohammad Ismail, the former Deputy Military Council Chairman for the Quetta Shura. Twenty-five other senior Afghan Taliban leaders may also have been executed in Quetta, Pakistan for defying orders not to engage in talks with the Afghan government.